LAST TANGO IN PARIS
ItalyFrance, 1972
Original title: Ultimo tango a Parigi
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Story and screenplay: Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli.Cinamatographer: Vittorio Storaro. Editor: Franco Arcalli, Roberto Perpignani. Art director: Ferdinando Scarfiotti. Film score: Gato Barbieri. Cast and characters: Marlon Brando (Paul), Maria Schneider (Jeanne), Jean- Pierre Léaud (Tom), Massimo Girotti (Marcel), Maria Michi (Rosa’s mother), Giovanna Galletti (prostitute), Catherine Allégret (Catherine), Catherine Breillat (Mouchette), Marie-Hélène Breillat (Monique), Veronica Lazare (Rosa). Production: Alberto Grimaldi for PEA, Productions Artistes Associés. Lenght:129’.
Format: DCP. Source and under licence from Park Circus.
Original version.
In Paris, two strangers experience the amour à mort, that Sex in capital letters that very much belonged to French culture: outside Passy’s apartment there are a lonely man, a little unmade, and a bored and inert girl.
“The intellectualistic aspect of the film would have prevailed, while with Brando and Maria Schneider Paul and Jeanne took on a thickness and a colour – a morbidity and a malleability – with the most disturbing results: the former for everything that his mask carried around that is instinctive and confusedly experienced and ‘American’, the latter due to a non-cerebral, immediate and more ‘modern’ physical arrogance of the Sanda, even if equally ‘Parisian bourgeois’. The two together because of their differences of age and cultures and images. […] Brando has put of himself, in this film, without the mediations he was forced to in other times, the ‘acting’ of a character not too external to his own experience and in which to immerse himself with the teachings of the method, to the point of being able to make an explicit confession at times.” (Goffredo Fofi)
Saturday 30 April 2022, h. 2:00 pm
